Improvement in mop-heads



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUKE W. TAYLOR, OF UPPER FALLS POST-OFFICE, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOP-HEADS.

Specification forming part vof Letters Patent No. 117,943, dated August8, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUKE W. TAYLOR, of Weathersiield, Upper FallsPost-Office, in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, haveinvented a new and Improved Mop-Head; and that the following is a fulland exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereonmaking a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a mop-head that shall besimple, cheap, and useful. The invention consists in ceiling the ends ofthe movable jaw or binder of a mop-head into a spiral, so that it maybeoperated with a positive upand-down motion, by projections on arevolving` collar working between said coil or spiral, as in a screw.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a side view of myinvention, and Fig. 2 an edge view of the same in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several gures.

A represents the cross-head or fixed jaw of a mop-head; B, the socket,cast onto the crosshead; C, the handle. These several parts being'common in mop-heads, no further description is here required and noclaim is made to them. The binder or movable jaw D, it will be observed,passes around the cross-head in the direction of its length, workinginto guides formed in said cross-head; thence it is bent in a directionparallel with the length of the cross-head to the socket B; and the endsof said binder are next coiled in the form of a spiral spring, F,fitting around said socket and the handle C. The handle is reducedsomewhat in size at one end, forming a shoulder, c. Onto this reducedend is fitted a collar, b, so that it may freely revolve thereon betweenthe shoulder c and the lower edge of the socket B of the cross-head,when said handle is fitted into said socket, thus confining said collarin place. The collar b is of peculiar construction, being cast orotherwise formed with two thumb-ears, d d, by which it may be revolved,and also with two lesser projections or ears, e e, placed at or nearlyat right angles to the iirstmentioned ears d d, so that when the collarb is revolved the projections e e will pass betweeneach coil of thespirally-bent extremities of the binder or movable jaw l), and in thisway force said binder up and down as the collar bis turned to the rightor left, bringing it more or less in contact with the cross-head orfixed jaw A.

From the foregoing it must be seen that I construct a mop-head cheaplyand strongly, and obviate the necessity of attaching several partsheretofore found necessary in mopheads, besides reducing the cost bydoing away with much riveting, and other fitting and manipulation, andsince mop-heads are a common, though useful article of manufacture, thecheaper they can be made, (providing said cheapness is combined withexcellence,) the better are the wants of the public subserved; hence myimprovements are useful, novel, and cheap.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, an d desire tosecure by Letters Patent isl. The binder D, formed at one end into thespiral j' embracing the handle C, in combination with the collar bhaving lugs e e and ears d cl, substantially as set forth, for thepurposes specified.

2. The combination of the collar b, formed with lugs e e and ears d d,with the binder D having a spiral, f, when arranged to operate inconnection with the cross-head and handle, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

LUKE W. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

ELRoY C. ROBINSON, MARTIN J. BIxBY.

